Published at Saturday, May 12th, 2018 - 18:30:54 PM. Headboard. By Luzia Anna.

Headboards are a critical part of bedroom design. They are often the first thing you see when you enter the room and the most dominant. Just as the front door makes an important public statement about who you are the headboard makes an important personal statement about who you are. Consequently it′s a terrific place for letting your creativity soar and your imagination take wing.

The easiest way to dream up a great scheme for a bedroom design is to focus on finding a fabulous headboard. It is the centerpiece of any successful bedroom design and designers and homeowners alike are becoming very creative when it come to determining this element of the room. From wonderfully detailed upholstered headboards to using unlikely materials expanding the possibilities of what a can become a headboard can be the start of a remarkable bedroom design.

A touch of Normandy. You don’t have to scrap your wooden headboard to get a fabric feel. Add to it like the design team responsible for this Francophile bedroom did. A custom valance allows yards of luxurious fabrics to flow gracefully from the ceiling to the floor behind an existing headboard giving the piece a whole new inviting look.